Well, this is unexpected. The iPhone 4G saga just got a whole lot crazier - dare I say it, a whole lot more ridiculous. Have you ever reported anything like a phone or something similarly small stolen to the police? What was their reaction? Did you ever get the device back? Did they send an army of officers to get your device back? No? Odd. They raided Jason Chen's house, and took four computers and two servers. Update: And thus our true colours reveal. "The raid that San Mateo area cops conducted last week on the house of Gizmodo editor Jason Chen came at the behest of a special multi-agency task force that was commissioned to work with the computer industry to tackle high-tech crimes. And Apple Inc. sits on the task force's steering committee." Update II: According to TechCrunch, the investigation has been put on hold while the DA ponders Gizmodo's shield defence. Update III: Some legal insight from a constitutional law and first amendment expert and a law professor. The gist? The DA has said no one has been charged with anything here, making this just an investigation - however, this makes the search and seizing of material worse. "If the police are literally just gathering information, with no suspect targeted yet, then a subpoena against a journalist would have probably been smarter than a search warranted that resulted in the front door of Chen's home being bashed in."

And since when is an unreleased iPhone classified government data? Since when is Apple the government or a government contractor? Try a better analogy please.

I was about to say.

This is exactly what companies like Apple want you to believe - that they are as important as the government itself. Which, of course, is one of the most retarded notions you can have.

If Apple were to vanish right now, sure, it'd be problematic for a select number of people, but that's it. We'll survive, someone else will fill the void. Now imagine the government vanishing right now. It would lead to chaos, death, war, and god knows what else.

Claiming that an Apple employee losing a product prototype is akin to a military official losing highly sensitive defence data just shows how warped and stupid people have become.